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M. G. SWEZEY.

A CASH CARRIER. No. 398,856. Patented Feb. 19, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

MOSES C. S\VEZEY, 0F .\E\V HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

CASH-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 398,356, dated February 19, 1889.

Application filed October 8, 1888. Serial No. 287,511. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MosEs C. SWEZEY, of New Haven, in the county of New I-Iaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Cash Railway Apparatus; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure l, a side view of a portion of the track of a cash-carrier apparatus, representing the terminus with a car approaching; Fig. 2, a top or plan view o'f the same; Fig. 3, a transverse section through one of the wheels :running on the track; Eig. ll, a transverse section of the same wheel advanced onto the expanded track; Eig. 5, a modification in the means for gradually increasing the tran sverse area of the track at the terminus or destination o t' thc ear.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class oi' cash -carrier apparatus in which the track is a wire undersuftieient tonsion to be held taut and straightfalul the car suspended from the wire, the grooved wheels of the car running upon the wire, and so that a momentum imparted to the car Vfrom one point will be suliieientto carry ,it to its destination at the other point.

In the useol' such apparatus the momentum is frequently so great that a (mnsderable lforce is reilnired to stop the car at its destination.

Various appliances have been .made lo cushion or prevent the stop being too abrnlit. These appliancesare more or less complieai ed and liable to derangement.

The object of my invention is to produc(` a resistance to the advance ol the car beyond its destination which shall be easy, simple, and not liable to derangcment; and it consists in the construction hereinafter dese ri bed, and particularly recited in the claim.

A represents the wire track, which is suspended in the usual manner and drawn taut.

B represents the car vsuspended from the track and supported upon grooved wheels c o.

C represents the basket, which is removably attached to the car in the usual manner, and so that a slight force imparted to the car will cause it to travel upon the track toward its destination in either direction. This may be imparted by any of the known means, the force to move the car constituting no part of my invention. i

Near the point where the car is required to stop I gradually increase the diameter or transverse area of the wire or track-say beginning at a point, I), and increasing therefrom to a point, d, near or slightly beyond the point where the car is required to stop, and so that as the caradvances on the wire the wheels will run onto the gradually-increasing diameter of the wire. This increase of diameter gradually fills the groove ot' the wheels, and consequently increases the friction between the surface on which the wheel rolls and the wheel itselt', the grooves of the wheels being considerably wider than the diameter oit' the wire A, so that running on the wire but very slight extent oli' bearing is taken by the wheel, and consequently Vvery little frietou during the runningl ot' the car over the wire ol? uniform ('liaineter; but as the car advances onto this gradually-incrcasing size ot' the wire the filling of the groove causes the wheel io hug the wire more closely, as seen in Fig. L1;,and prmluee a rubbing effect thereon, which serves as a brake upon the advance ot' the car, and so that the advance ot' the car is easily retarded and quickly brought to a stand; but yet the car is readily thrown in the reverse direction, so as to take itfrom the lin-aking portion ot' the track and return it :from whence rit came. Y

The device which I have devised for so gradually increasing the size of the track is to wind upon the track-nire, as represented in Fig. l, there being other wire or iilling ot' some character introduced between the outer convolutions and-the wire, which' will give to it the tapering or gradually-increasing diameter, as seen in Figs. l and 2. The gradually-increasing diameter may be readily produced, as represented in Fig. 5, by winding upon the wire several overlays of tine wire, the extent of each overlay gradually diminlool ishing, so tllatpraetioally a gradual]y-expanding track is produced.

I do not. wish to be understood as claiming, broadly, a traol; 'for Cash-earlier presenting a having near its termination a gradual en- 1o largement formed by an overlay of Wire Wound thereon, said enlargement being adapted to gradually stop a oar traveling on said track,

5 gradually-nereasing transverse area on the l all Substantiallyas described.

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FRED C. EARLE,

J. H. SHUMWAY.

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